Proposal for a Council decision on authorising Member States to ratify in the interests of the Community the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention of the International Labour Organization (Convention 185)

The overall attractiveness of a job covers a number of dimensions: satisfaction with pay and working conditions; health and safety at the workplace (public authorities and employers need to assess and control the risk factors relating to an increasingly ageing work force); balance between flexibility and security in contractual relationships (high rates of voluntary part-time work are associated with higher participation rates among women and older workers; conversely, involuntary part-time work and fixed-term contracts are associated with higher exit rates into either unemployment (15%) or inactivity (10%).); productivity improvemen ...[+++]ts; flexible work organisation and working time arrangements that improve access and choice especially of women and older workers.

In Member States with high part-time rates, like Denmark and Sweden, a decrease can be found over time; the lowest part-time rates continue to be found in Portugal and Greece, between 4.8% and 3.5%.

(g) pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No ; weight-operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No ); lifting or handling machinery (heading Nos to ); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No ); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No , including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating machines (heading No ); valves and other appliances (heading No ) ...[+++];

(a) the machinery must be designed, constructed or equipped so that the piece being machined can be placed and guided in safety; where the piece is hand-held on a work-bench the latter must be sufficiently stable during the work and must not impede the movement of the piece;

(f) Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No 84.13 ; weight-operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No 84.23) ; lifting or handling machinery (heading Nos 84.25 to 84.28) ; paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No 84.41) ; fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No 84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes) ; calculating machines (heading No 84.70) ; ...[+++] valves and other appliances (heading No 84.81);